Norman Lear
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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come ... 
I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I d... 
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. 
The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world... 
Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixe... 
The world is a beautiful place
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When the vision is clear, the results will appear. Keep your mindset positive as you work your plan,... 
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Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mu... 
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don... 
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small t... 
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If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life. 
Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really ... 
Don't stop believing,
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What you need is an idea. 
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He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work. 
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we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. 
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